Le Trio d'Anches

FACULTY OF MUSIC UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

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"Le Trio D’Anches"
Lesley Young, oboe

Kathleen McLean, bassoon
Joseph Orlowski, clarinet

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Friday, January 8, 1993 at 8 pm
Walter Hall

PROGRAMME

Trio d’Anches Pierre Max Dubois
Humoresque
Ritournelle
Aubade

Divertissement Jean Francaiy
Prélude
Allegro Assai
Elégie
Scherzo

¢ INTERMISSION ¢

Quintet in Eb-Major, KV 452 W.A. Mozart
for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn
and bassoon

Largo - Allegro moderato

Larghetto

Allegretto

Joan Watson, horn
Pat Krueger, piano

$¢¢

This performance will be broadcast on CJRT Radio (91.1) on May 16, 1993 at 7 pm in their series
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Non commerctal Rade!

PROGRAMME NOTES
Divertissement Jean Fran¢aix

Jean Frangaix was born in Le Mans, France in 1912. His father was
the director of the conservatory at Le Mans where Jean Francaix studied
before enroling at the Paris conservatory. There he was awarded the Premier
Prix de Piano in 1930. He studied composition with Nadia Boulanger, and soon
began to focus his considerable creative talent on composition, emerging as one
of the most gifted composers of his generation. Francaix’s music has been
performed extensively world-wide, and he has appeared as soloist in his own
and other works with the leading orchestras in Europe and the U.S. His music
is characterized by an engaging spontaneity and great technical proficiency. It
is often witty, but rarely profound. He composed the trio for woodwind
instruments Divertissement in 1947.

Quintet in Eb-Major, KV 452 W. A. Mozart

Mozart was most at ease, and perhaps most inspired, when writing
music that included the keyboard instrument. During his Vienna years (1781 -
1791) he composed seventeen concertos for piano and orchestra. Mozart’s
Quintet in Eb-Major, KV 452 for piano and winds, completed in 1784, is very
closely related to his Vienna concertos and shows striking resemblance to
several of them.

The opening movement has an introductory Largo followed by an
Allegro moderato which is the main body of the movement. In the Largo the
piano is assigned the opening statement with punctuating winds. The principal
theme of the Allegro moderato is enlivened by varied combinations of
instruments. The bassoon, always a favourite of Mozart’s, is given especially
agile and diverting lines. In the second movement, Larghetto, the theme is
stated in an affectionate dialogue between all the instruments. The closing
Allegretto is light and spritely, and the movement concludes with a typical
Mozart finale, the piano being assigned the leading role.

TONIGHT’S ARTISTS

"Le Trio D’Anches"

Lesley Young is one of Canada’s most successful "new generation"
oboists. Born in Edmonton, she graduated with a Bachelor of Music in
Performance in 1981 from the University of Toronto, where she is currently an
instructor teaching oboe and chamber music. Ms. Young plays oboe and
English horn for both the National Ballet of Canada and the Canadian Opera
Company Orchestra, and is very active in all aspects of musical life in Toronto,
including films, recordings, solo and chamber music concerts. She is principal
oboe with the Esprit Orchestra, which specializes in contemporary music, and

was a featured soloist on their first CBC SM 5060 series compact disc.

Joseph Orlowski received a Bacheior of Music in Performance in
1981 at the University of Toronto where he studied clarinet with James
Campbell. He continued advanced studies ia the winter program of the Banff
School of Fine Arts. Mr. Orlowski’s professiona! career includes the National
Ballet Orchestra, the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra and the National
Arts Centre Orchestra, and he held the position of assistant principal and bass
clarinet with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. He now plays 2nd clarinet
with the Toronto Symphony and is actively involved in solo and chamber music
recitals.

Kathleen McLean is currently associate principal bassoon of the
Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Ms. McLean was born in Saskatoon and received
her musical training at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. She then moved
to Toronto where she was principal bassoon with the Canadian Opera
Company Orchestra, until last year when she joined the Toronto Symphony.
She is also an instructor at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto

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Joan Watson was born in Dauphin, Manitoba and received a
Bachelor of Music in Performance at the University of Victoria, B.C. She was
principal horn of the Victoria Symphony for 10 years, then in 1987 she moved
to Toronto where she played first horn with the Canadian Opera Orchestra.
Her musical activities included performing with the Toronto Philharmonic,
Array Music, and the Esprit Orchestra. Ms. Watson has beei: on the Faculty
of Music at the University of Toronto teaching horn since 1987, and last year
joined the Toronto Symphony as associate principal horn.

Patricia Krueger was born in ‘foronto. She began piano studies at
the age of three and by the age of seven was competing in music festivals,
accompanying choirs and participating in recitals. She graduated frorn the
Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, with an Honours Bachelor of Music
degree in Music Education.

Since 1978, she has been the principal keyboard and a member of the
percussion section of the Toronto Symphony. As well as perforrning with the
orchestra, she has accompanied and worked with many guest soloists and
conductors including Jessye Norman, Maureen Forrester, Isaac Stern, Pinchas
Zukerman, Seiji Ozawa and Andrew Davis.

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